Philosophy Essays and Term Papers

who lived from 1770-1831. Hegel believes that history is progressive, in the course of time human beings great a greater understanding of the world. History is a succession of understanding the divine, nature, society, and beauty. Hegel thinks

attributed to human nature's continuous struggle for power. This is a predominant factor in why individuals become greedy, self-serving and cruel at the expense of others. If the Ring of Gyges existed today, it would most likely fall into the hands

philosophy he makes the argument that an omnipotent and infinite god exists. In this paper I'll reconstruct Descartes argument and evaluate its validity based on the soundness of its premises. Descartes' proof for the existence of god is: 1.) I think,

about the value of art in human society. Plato attempts to strip artists of the power and prominence they enjoy in his society, while Aristotle tries to develop a method of inquiry to determine the merits of an individual work of art. It is

be called into doubt". What he is doing is questioning if what we see and experience is real or if we are being deceived. Perception is something that is our own. The way that one person sees something may be completely different to someone who is

of reality and phenomenal images, many empiricists were unaware the consequences with regarded to their theory on knowledge. From this, they still somewhat upon in which to develop a metaphysics that is absolute and complete. On the other hand,

rational creatures." "Better is the enemy of the good." "Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them." "Faith is believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe." "God prefers the bad verses recited with a pure

and metaphysical is very popularly in the twentieth century. So, it makes Christian became a big enemy in the worldview of Naturalism. In the Naturalism worldview, the naturalists believe that all life thing, such as human, animals, and plants are

a quite simple alternative: Either we deny that there is here
anything that can be called truth - a choice that would make us deny what we
experience most profoundly as our own being; or we must look beyond the realm of our "natural" experience for

the necessary and sufficient conditions that are ever-present in what is known as art. For Tolstoy these conditions were that a piece of art must be borne of a feeling or emotion experienced by the artist, and in turn convey this emotion to the